What Is Laminate Bending

Beginning with one end attach the laminate firmly to the edge of the counter and use your j roller to flatten and tighten it down.

What is laminate bending.

In this edition we look at forming wood parts using thin laminates. As we all know the thinner the part the easier it will conform to a curve. We started this wood bending series exploring simple and kerf bending. Laminate several many layers using thin strips of wood called veneers.

Lamination is the process of bending many thin parts together and holding them in the desired shape until the glue between them. Wax is a good idea as well for a belt and suspenders approach. Clamp the laminate strips to your table before sanding. Attach the laminate carefully.

We ll be using wilsonart laminate and would like suggestions on bending the laminate around this radius edge. The individual layers consist of high modulus high strength fibers in a polymeric metallic or ceramic matrix material. As with the cold bending method you want to leave an extra 1 2 to the width of the laminate to trim later. Cutting from a solid piece of wood.

Gluing thin veneers strips of thin wood together to form the curve. The countertop will be 2 1 4 thick. Forum responses laminate and solid surface forum from contributor e. In materials science a composite laminate is an assembly of layers of fibrous composite materials which can be joined to provide required engineering properties including in plane stiffness bending stiffness strength and coefficient of thermal expansion.

I also like to use cork on the bending surfaces to help distribute the pressure evenly.